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Photo Credit: photo: J. Giammatteo

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The Soldier Dines

1988
20th century
126 x 152 mm (5 x 6 in.)

Sergei Semenov, Russian, b. born 1956

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Woodcut on heavyweight textured cream wove paper

Print impression quality: Excellent

Edition: Number 3 from edition of 7

Marks: Signed in pencil below image; inscribed in pencil, lower left: “3/7”; Russian inscription translates as “The soldier’s daily ration of pleasure”; and on spoon, “Find the meat, you bastard.”

Marks: Watermark: No watermark

Bibliography: Sergei Semenov (catalog in Russian and English from a previous exhibition, acquired by Wesleyan University Library 1997); see also 1997 DAC exhibition file.

Credit Line: Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1997

Accession Number: 1997.8.3

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This object has the following keywords:

animals*, cats, food*, military, satire*, soldiers*, Soviet Union*

animals - This section can use more hierarchical (quasi-Linnaean) refinement in future; extant terms were assembled into a fairly flat and slightly redundant structure to expedite conversion.
cats
food - Use for any material that can be digested or absorbed by the body of a human or other animal and used as a source of energy or some essential nutrient, to build and replace tissue, or to relieve hunger. [April 1995 descriptor changed, was "foodstuff"; lead-in terms added.]
military
satire - Artistic device holding up human folly and vice to scorn, derision, or ridicule. [November 1994 scope note added; related term added; alternate term added. May 1994 related term added.]
soldiers - Use generally for those belonging to an army, whether that of a sovereign state, a faction or division within a sovereign state, or of an individual leader. Use also specifically for military personnel of enlisted rank, as distinguished from commissioned officers. For those trained for or engaged in the physical combat of warfare and sanctioned in that function by the society or group for which they fight, irrespective of actual membership in an army, use "warriors." [November 1997 scope note changed; related term added. November 1996 related term deleted, was "knights (landholders)". February 1993 scope note changed; descriptor moved. December 1992 related terms added; alternate term added. November 1990 descriptor added.]
Soviet Union - TGN 6006211 (former nation/state/empire)

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image Dimensions: 126 x 152 mm (5 x 6 in.)

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Credit Caption

Sergei Semenov, Russian, b. born 1956 . The Soldier Dines, 1988. Woodcut on heavyweight textured cream wove paper. image : 126 x 152 mm (5 x 6 in.). Sheet : 509 x 365 mm (20 x 14.4 in.). DAC accession number 1997.8.3. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1997. (photo: J. Giammatteo) .

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